Re: [lace-chat] Distances in the UK

2008-06-07 Thread Dora Smith
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Distances in the UK but others have spoken eloquently about congestion, road works, minor roads etc. In Michigan, we have two seasons: winter and road-work, also known as orange-barrel season from the large orange drums set up

Re: [lace-chat] Distances in the UK

2008-06-07 Thread Dora Smith
- From: Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Distances in the UK but others have spoken eloquently about congestion, road works, minor roads etc. In Michigan, we have two seasons: winter

Re: [lace-chat] Distances in the UK

2008-06-04 Thread Scotlace
Thanks for the exact mileage between John o' Groats and Land's End. I assumed, from the assertion made by someone on the list, that the distance of 370 miles quoted had to mean only from a point on the central south coast of England to the nearest point on the north coast - the equivalent of

Re: [lace-chat] Distances in the UK

2008-06-04 Thread Martha Krieg
but others have spoken eloquently about congestion, road works, minor roads etc. In Michigan, we have two seasons: winter and road-work, also known as orange-barrel season from the large orange drums set up to form a psychological barrier between drivers and workers (or non-existent/deeply

[lace-chat] Distances, was Large city populations

2005-07-25 Thread Lynn Carpenter
Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despite mathematics being my first love, I am still sometimes fazed by distances, and I think it sometimes gets the UK into perspective when you realise that, from our coastal side of the country, in East Anglia, to *my* part of Wales - St Davids, right on

Re: [lace-chat] Distances

2005-07-25 Thread Alice Howell
At 02:27 AM 7/25/2005, you wrote: - it is about 400 miles. And - one of the widest parts of the UK, and can still easily be travelled in a day... And what I find hard to grasp is that the USA is farther from one side to the other, than it is from the UK to the USA. I live 50 miles from